Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in reference to the Medicines and Pregnancy Registry: Antiepileptic use in females aged 0 to 54 in England, whether his Department has reported the total number of people affected by Valproate in pregnancy to the Office of National Statistics.

The Department has not reported the total number of people affected by sodium valproate in pregnancy to the Office of National Statistics. The Medicines and Pregnancy Registry contains data on every woman in England receiving National Health Service-prescribed sodium valproate and all other antiepileptics taken during pregnancy and whether the individual is pregnant and accessing NHS care for that pregnancy. The Registry publishes data twice a year.